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â- *'<:>. ' #^ Shadow Faceti, Ti8 said that down the dimlv-llKUteil aisle Of Hoiiio old wurlil oatho<lral »traiiguly borne, *0u qiiivuriuy wiugu that aru unHoeii the while, Tilt; auciuiit suUh of dedieation mora *till weirdly liutjortt In the Htatoly pilo. ^ in the inmost bhambur of tuy soul ^ The uhaduwy furms of radiant fsLvcA dwun, Wliicli, wheutne al^ades of darkneHs gain control, Broak through the slumbrous dream ana them diKpol. .' The face of cn(j ilovoâ€" that perfect (ace- Bo wondrous tu ita utrenf^tli of purity; ^hose eyes of Lhitt, that gentle stately grace. Which one uii^'lit liopu in angel furms to sec ; O thou whose nainit too Bacrt'd is to voice, WhoBe face ttniM lingers iH;ar a sliadow Btar, I watch thy guntlo radianei* freni afar, And make thine upward way my nobler choice. And now, amid the shadow and the gloom, Uv wayward fancy paints a tender face, WnoBe aoft brown eyes from out my soul would Ohase fi^ach other thought than those that are of home ; Ana o'er that gentle face there soeuiH to play, Ah from soniu world unspcn, a holy light. That out the deeper density of night Would weave the glory of a Hahhatu day. thou that wert the source of life in me, Ifore sweet and hallowed far than auy other Ifl thy jiure life, and thus most reverently I wiUHper low the sacred name of mother. A^aiu night wavers, morn uterual breaks And out the shattered gloom a haloed head Comes forth; tbo flesh that wraps uiy 8i)irit quakes, And 1 a captive heavenward am l&d. The joyous chanl of augels tHIs the air. That in an early day spoke " peace on earth." 1 gee their faces radiant and rare, 1 hear the story of a wondrous birth. • • • • The sun ia dead, the trembling stars die out ; A world rolls through the gloom a mighty bearHe, The solemn whinper that a (rod is dead Low echoes through a startled universe. • * ♦ • ♦ Ea th disappearK, immortal music falls * Ct^on uiy oarH from choiring throngs that come Expectantly to welcome fr^m afar A mighty conqueror returning home. • « * * « Oglorious vision of a w(mdrous life. Thou hast my suul almost to heaven enticed ; I feel no wonder when the angels say. The face is that of him that is the Christ. O matchless face, my guiding star to he ; Q face that now my guiding star hast been ; haloed face, must wondrous of the three. That bid me seek a brighter goal to win. shadow faces linger in my soul ; 8tay with me through the wasting of the yeartj, And when death'ii Rolemu waters round iii^oH Let fall thy gunth? radiance on my fearu. -StUABT IjIVINOSTON. Hamilton, January, 1887. The .Sunday Fiahermau. (From Tid iJils.) This man alxive. on fishing bent, One Sabbath morning left ills tent. The Tent, A He took his can. and verv quick He dug his flsh-worms with a pick. The l»ick,H The Worms. M 09 In case some flnh of siae he'd get. He lock along his landing net, The Landing Net, ^ As fishermen get hungry. Uhj, Of pretzeU hu pr()curud a few. The l»retZflM, If W If 8oiue lines he took along on spools Toteach them to the finny Bchools. The BiK)oIs. MN ^-4 •â€" I He had suuie eutt^rtainlng book« Of highly tempered Iiiinerick hookii. The Hooks. J J J And thus ^prepared, ho got a boat* And out upon the stream did tfoat. The Boat, C:» Borne hito8 ^le straight t>ogau to get. It wa»* the ga]]inip]>om bit The Gallljiippeni ^ ^ ^ tf One of bis linos spun ofT the rpel; He laniled in the ooat an eel The Kol, M Then quickly it htgan to ralu. But his umbrella was fn vain. .; The Umbrella. T Above his head the thunder crashcMl, And all around the lightning flashed. The Lightning, ^ The storm blew, and the boat uiiset. That man went down into the wet. The Upturned Boat, C^ And an he sank the bubbles rose, Hmaller and smaller toward the cIomi*. The Hubbies, O O o o OF THREE : A NOYEL. Eow those are more or less principles of lan nature. They may not be tiniversally true, probably nothing is â€" that in, aB we define and nnderatand truth. But they apply to tlio majority of those casefl which fall strictly within their limits. Among others they applied rather strikingly to Ernest Kershuw. Eva's desertion Rtruck his belief in womanhood to the ground, and soon his reli^jion lay in the dust beside it. Of this his life for some years after that gave considerable evidence. Ho took to evil ways, he forgot his better self. He raced horses, he went in with great success for love-affairs that he would have done better to leave alone. Sometimes, to his shame be it said, he drs.nkâ€" for the excitement of «lrinking, not for the love of it. In short, he gave himself and all his fund of energy up to any and every excitement and dissi- pation he could command, and he managed to command a good many. Travelling rapidly from place to place in Houth Af rico he was well known and well liked in all. Now he was at Kimberley, now at King William's Town, now at Durban. In eacli of these places he kept race-horses ; in each there was some fair woman's face that (jrew the brighter for his coming. But Ernest's face did not grow the brighter ; on the contrary, his eyes Acquired a peculiar sadness which was •Imost pathetic in one so young. He could not forget. For a few days or a few months he might stifle thought, but it always re- arosu. Eva, pn!e queen of women, was ever there to haunt his sleep, and, though in his waking hours ho might curse her memory, when night drew the veil from truth the words ho murmured were words of love eternal. Ho no longer prayed, ho no longer rever- enced woman, but ho was not the happier for having freed his soul from these burdens. Ho deapi.sed himself. Occasion- ally lie would take stock of his mental con dition, and at each stook-taking he would notice that he had receded, not progressed. He was growing coArsor, his finer sense was being blunted ; he was no longer the same Krnest who had written that queer letter to hid betrothed before disaster over- whelmed him. Slowly and surely he was sinking. He knew it, but he did not try to save himself . \Vhy should he? He had no object in life. But at times a great depression and weariness of existence would take possession of him. It has been said he never prayed ; that is not strictly true. Onoe or twice he did throw himself upon his knees and pray with all his strength that he might die. He did more, he persistently courted death, and, as is usual in such cases, it persistently avoided him. About taking his own life he bad scruples, or he perhaps would have taken it. In those dark days he hated life, and in his calmer and more reflective moments he loathed the pleasures and excitements by means of which he strove to make it pala- table. His was a fine-strung mind, and, in spite of himself, he shuddered when it was set to play such coarse music. During those years Eruest seemed to bear a charmed existence. There was a well-known thoroughbred horse in the Transvaal which had killed two men in rapid succession. Krnest bought it and rode it, and it never hurt him. Disturb- ances broke out in Sikukini's country, and one of the chief's strongholds was ordered to be stormed. Ernest rode down from Pretoria with Jeremy to see the fun, and, reaching the fort the day before the attack, got leave to join the storming party. Accordingly, next day at dawn they attacked in the teeth of a furious fusillade, and in time took the place, though with very heav^ loss to themselves. Jeremy got his hat shot off with one bullet and his hand cut by another ; Ernest, as usual, came off scathelees ; the man next to him was killed, but he was not touched. After that he insisted upon going buffalo-shooting toward Delagou Bay in the height of the fever-season, having got rid of Jeremy by getting him to go to New Scotland to see about a tract of land they had bought. He started with a dozen bearers and Mazooku. Six weeks later he, Mazooku, and three bearers returned â€" all the rest were dead of fever. On another occasion, Alston, Jeremy, and himself wore sent on a political mis- sion to a hostile chief, whose stronghold lay in the heart of almost inaccessible mountains. The"indaba" (palaver) took all day, and was purposely prolonged in order to enable the intelligent native to set an ambush in the pass through which the white chiefs must go back, with strict instructions to murder all three of them. When they left the stronghold the moon was rising, and, as they neared the pass, up she came behind the mountains in all her splendor, flooding the wide valley on every stone and tree. On they rode steadily through the moonlight and the silence, little guessing how near death was to them. The weird beauty of the scene sank deep into Ernest's heart, and presently, when they came to a spot where a track ran out loopwise from the main pass, returning to it a couple of miles farther on, he half insiBte<i on their taking it, because it passed over yet higher ground, and would give them a bettor view of the moon -bathed valley. Mr. Alston grumbled at " his nonsense" and complied, and meanwhile the party of murderers half a mile farther on played with their assegais, lad wondered why they did not hear the sound of the wlii»o men's feet. But the white men liad already passed along the higher path three quarters of a mile to their right. Ernent's love of moonlight effects had saved them all from a certain and perhaps from a lingering death. It was shortly after this incident that Ernest and Jeremy were seated together on the veranda of the same house at Pretoria where they had been living before they went on the elephant-hunt, and which they had now purcliased. Ernest had been in the garden v-atoring a cucumber-plant he was tryir.; jo develop from a very sickly seedling. Even if he only stopped a month in a place ho would start a little garden ; it was a habit of his Presently ho came back to the veranda, where Jeremy was as usual watching the battle of the red and black ants, which after several years' encounter was not yot finally decided. " Curse that cauumbor- plant !" said Ernest emphatically, " it won't grow. I tell you what it is, Jeremy, I am sick of this place ; X vote we go away." " For goodness' sake, lOrnest, lot us have a little rest ; you do rattle one about so in those confounded post-carts, " replied Jeremy, yawning. I mean, go away from South Africa altogether." " Oh," said .Toromy, dragging hit great frame into an upright position, " the deuce you do ! And where do you want to goto Engl&nd?" " England ! no, I have had enough of England. South America, I think. But IKsrhaps you want to go home. It is not fair to keep dragging you all over the world." " My dear follow, I like it, I assure you? I have no wish to return to Mr. Cardus' stool. For goodness' sake don't suggest such a thing ; I should be wretched." " Yes, but you ought to be doing some- thing with your life. It is all very well for me, who am a poor devil of a waif and stray, to go on with this sort of existence, but I don't see why you should ; you should bo making your way in the world." " Wait a bit, my hearty," said Jeremy, with his slow smile ; " I am going to read you a statement of our financial affairs which I drew up last night. Considering that we have been doing nothing all this time except enjoy ourselvos, and that all our investments have boon made out of income, which no doubt your respected uncle fancies we have dissipated, I do not rust wo have made or it has accumulated. Now, I ask you, where could we have done better than that as things go ? So don't talk to me about wasting my time," " Bravo, Jeremy I My uncle was right, after all, you ought to have been a lawyer ; you are first class at figures. I con- gratulate you on your management of the estates." " My system is simple," answered Jeremy. " Whenever there is any money to spare I buy something with it, then you are not likely to spend it. Then, when I have things enough â€" waggons, oxen, horses, what notâ€" I sell them and buy some land ; that can't run away. If you only do that sort of thing long enough you will grow rich at Vst." " Sweetly simple, certainly. Well, five thousand will go a long way toward stock- ing a farm or something in South America, or wherever we make up our minds '..o go, and then I don't think that we need draw on my uncle any more. It is hardly fair to drain him so. Old Alston will come with us, I think, and will put in another five thousand. He told me some time ago that he was getting tired of South Africa, with its Boers and blacks, in his old age, and had a fancy to make a start in some other place I will write to him to-night. What hotel is he staying at in Maritzburg ? the lloyal, isn't it ? And then I vote we clear in the spring." ' Right you are, my hearty." ' But I say, Jeremy, I really should advise you to think twici before you come. A fine upstanding young man like you should not waste his sweetness on the desert air of Mexico, or any such place. You should go home and be admired of the young women â€" they like a great big chap like you â€" and make a good marriage, and rear up a large family in a virtuous, res- pectable, and .(ones-like fashion. I am a sort of wandering coOket without the shine ; bat I repeat I see no reason why you should play tail to a second-class comet." " Married I get married ! I ! No, thank yon, my boy, look you, Ernest, in the words of the prophet, â-  When a wise man openeth hia eye and seeth a thing, verily he shutteth it ilot up again.' Now, I opened my eye and saw one or two things in the course of our joint little affair â€" Eva. you know." Krnest winced at the name. " I beg your pardon," said Jeremy, noticing it ; "I don't want to allude to painful subjects, but I must to make my meaning clear. I was very iiard hit, ygu know, over that lady, but I stopped in time, and, not having any imagination to speak of, did not give ifkein. What is the consecjuence ? I have got over it ; sleep well at night, have a capital appetite, and don't think of her twice a week. But with you it is different. Hard hit, too, large amount of imagination galloping about loose, so to speak â€" rapturous joy, dreams of true love and perfect union of souls, which no doubt would be well enough if the woman could put in her whack of soul, which she can't, not haWng it to spare, but in a general way is gammon. Itesults, when the burst-up comes : Want of sleep, want of appetite, a desire to go buffalo- hunting in the fever-season, and to be potted by Basutus from behind rocks. In short, a general weari.-<!SB and disgust of life -oh, yes, you needn't deny it, I have watched you- -most unwholesome state of mindi Kurlclftr rpsulta : Hone- racing, a disposition tu stop away from church, and nip Cape Sherry ; and, worst sign of all, a leaning to ladies' society. Being a reason- ing creature, I notice this, and draw my own deductions, which amount to the concliiHion that you are in a fair way to go to the deuce, owing to trusting your life to a woman. And the moral of all this, which I lay to heart for my own guidance, is, never speak to a woman if you can avoid it, and when you can't, let your speech be yea, yea and nay, nay. Then you stand a good chance of keeping your appetite and petux of mind, and of making your way in the world. Marriage indeed I never talk to me of marriage again," and Jeremy shivered at the thought. Krnest laughed out loud a^ his lengthy disiinisition. And I'll tell you what, old fellow," he wont on, drawing himself up to his full height, and standing right over Ernest, go that the latter's six feet looked very insig- nificant beside him, " never yon siieak to mo about leaving you again, unless you want to put me clean out of temper, becauBe'look here, I don't like it. Wo have lived together since we were twelve or thereabout, and, so far as I am con- cerned, 1 mean to go on living together to the end of the chapter, or till I see I am not wanted. You can go to Mexico, or the North Pole, or Acapulto, or wherever you like, but I fthall go too, and so that is all about it." "Thank you, old fellow," said Ernest, simply ; and at that moment their con- versation was interrupted by the arrival of a Kafir messenger with a telegram addressed to Ernest. He opened it and road it. "Hullo," he said, " here is some- thing better than Mexico ; listen : " 'Aluton, Pieter Maritzburg, to Kershaw, Pretoria. High Commissioner has declared war against Cetywayo. Loc%l cavalry urgently reijuired for service in Zululancl. Have offered to raise small corps of about seventy inountod men. Offer has been accepted. Will you accept post of second in commaud ? you would hold the Queen's commisHion. If so, set about picking suit- able recruits : terms, ten shillings a day, all found. Am coming up Pretoria by this post-cart. Ask .Tones if he will arxicpt sergeant-inajorship." " Hurrah I" sang out Ernest with flasli- ing eyes. " Hero is some real service at last. Of course you will ocoept." " Of course," said Jeremy, quietly ; " but don't indulge in rejoicings yet ; this is trained in the art of travelling without baggage, and very rapidly. Ernest did not find much difficulty in th" task. Mr. Alston was well known, and had seen a great doal of service as a young man in the Basutu wars, and stories were still told of his nerve and pluck. He was known, too, to be a wary man, not rash or over oon- AMAZONS UV THE HOUR. t How Some Qirls lu New York Develop the Bleeps and Grow lieautiful. There ia near Central Park a gymnasium for girls. The young women wear blouses, : short skirts and trousers, and go through all the performances that men do. Their but of a determined mind ; and, ' proficiency becomes very great. One case is more, to possess a porfec^will illustrate what a young woman can lident, what is more, to possess a porfec^ knowledge of Zulu waHare and taoticsrTlearn to do. A girl was promised a seal This went a long way with intending' skin sacque by an admirer if she would recruits, for the first thing a would-be | learn to turn a back SDmereault. She set colonial volvmteer inquires into is the ' diligently at it, and practiced until she character of his ofiicers. He will not tru',t | was able to perform the feat. The gymua- liis life to men in whom he puts no ^ sium is liberally patronized and ia in every reliance. He is willing to lose it in the way { way a success. A look inside of it is enough of duty, but he has a great objection to ' to convince anybody that there is " room" having it blundered away. Indeed, in many j for the gymnasium. The hall is filled South African volunteer corps it is a during the Lessions. Some girls are swing- fundamental principle that the officers should be elected by the men themselves. Once elected, however, they cannot be deposed except by competent authority. Ernest, too, was by this time well known in the Transvaal, and universally believed in. Mr. Alston coult". not have chosen a better lieutenant. He was known to have pluck and dash, and to be ready-witted in emergency ; but it was not that which made him acceptable to the individuals whose continued existence would very possibly depend upon his courage and discretion. Indeed, it would be difficult to eay what it was : but there are some men who are by nature'born leaders of their fellows, and who inspire confidence magnetically. Eruest had this great gift. At first sight he was much like any other young man, rather careless-looking than otherwise in appear- ance, and giving the observer the impres- sion that he was thinking of something cl^e ; but old hands at native warfare, looking into bis dark eyes, saw something there which told them that this young fellow, boy as ho was, comparatively speak- ing, would not show himself wanting in the moment of emergency, either in courage or discretion. Jeremy's nomination, too, as sergeant-major, a very important post in such a corps, was iMpnIar enough. People had not forgotten hia victory over the Boer giant, and besides, a sergeant-uiajur with such a physique would have been a credit to any corps. All these things helped to make recruit- ing an easy task, and when Alston and his son Roger, weary and brniscd, stepped out of the Natal post-cart four days later, it was to be met by Ernest and Jeremy with the intelligence that his telegram bad been received, the appointmenta accepteti, and thirty-five men provisionally enrolled subject to his approval. " My word, young gentleman," i% said, highly pleased, " you are lieutenants worth having." (To b« ooDtiuued.) ing on the tib,\^iy/.e, others are climbing ropes, others are vaulting, turning .paft- wheels and the like, and others are pound- ing sandbags to work up their muscles. The exercise often converts delicate girls iuto strong and healthy ones, it is claimed. Boxing has become almost a craze among the fashionable girls. One thing said in commendation of it is that it imparts self- ^rassession and confidence. The idea is rather novel, but, after all, it is not un- reasonable. Fencing has long been prac- ticed by society girls, and ought to accom- plish as much as boxing is improving their bearing. Nearly all, or at any rate a good share, of the belles play billiards, which are declared to be healthful and also to improve the judgment. The claims for the different things may seem rather absurd, but they nevertheless have many believers. ThoiO are dozens of riding schools, bat they are not new like some of the other things. They are very popular, though.â€" ^«K' York NotcH in Brooklyn Union. Th* Dee's Sting aUMtfal Tool. From lengthened observations. Rev. W. F. Clarke, of Guelph, has come to the con- clusion that the most imi>ortant function of the bee's sting is not stinging, but its use by that wanderful creature as a tool. Mr. Clarke says he is convinced that the most important office of the bee's sting is that which is performed in doing the artistic ceH work, capping the comb, and infusing the formic acid by means of which honey receives its keeping qualities. The sting is really askilfully contrived UtUf trowel, with which the bee finishes off and oapH thf ceila when they are filled brimful of honey. This explains why honey extracted before it is capped over does not keep well. The formic acid has not been injected into it. This is done in the very act of putting the last touches on the cell work. As the little pliant trowel is worked to and fro with such dexterity, the darts, of which there are two, pierce the plastic cell surface, and leave the nectar beneath its tiny drops of the fluid which makon <t keep well. 'V.na is the " art preservative ' o.' honey. Herein we see, says Mr. Clarke, that the sting and the poison bag, with which so many of us would like to dispense, are essential to the storage^ the luscious product, and that ..jnori in m» «>«.<â- â€žâ€ž. V â€" ."V," '" withoutThem the beautiful comb honey of Sn." '\l ^Ss X^ytr waS „„..,. u. - thmg unImow„.1j„ begin on the •i.'ith of Mar^ and this usage or piece of antiquity is also still ob The MeaBurement of the Tear. The length of the year is strictly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 4'J seconds, and seven-tenths of a second â€" the time re(]uired for the revolution of the earth round the sun. About 45 B. C, Julius Cmsar, by the help of Sosigincs, an Alexandrian philoso- pher, came to a tolerably clear understand- mg of the length of a year, and decreed that every fourth year should be held to consist of 366 days for the purpose of absorbing the odd hours. By this rather clumsy arrangement the natural time fell behind the reckoning, as, in reality, a day every fourth year ia too much by 11 minutes, 10 seconds, three-tenths of a iiecond, so it inevitably followed that the beginning of the year moved onward ahead of the point at which it wos in the days of ('icsar. From the time of the Council of Nice, in 326 A. D., when the vernal equinox fell correctly on the 21st of March, Pope Gregory found in 1582 A. D. that there had been an over-reckoning to the extent of ten days and that the vernal equinox fell on the 11th of March. To correct the past error he decreed that the 5th of October of that year should be reckoned as the 15th, and, to keep the year right in futureâ€" the overplus being 18 hours, a7 minutes and 10 seconds in a century â€" he ordered that every centennial year that could not be divided bv four [1700, 1800, 1900, '2100, 2200) should not be bissextile, as it otherwise would be, thus, in short, dropping the extra day three times every four hundred years. While in Catholic countries the Oregorian stylo was readily adopted, it was not so in Protest- ant nations. In Britain it was not adopted until 1752, by which time the discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian periods amounted to eleven days. An Act of Parliament was passcl dictating that the 3rd of September of that year should be reckoned the 14th, and that three of every four centennial years should bo leap years. 'I'he year 1800 not being a leap year, the new and old styles now differ twelve days, our 1st of January being ajuivalent to the 13th old style. In Russia alone of Christian countries is the old style retained. The old style is still re- commerce would be a This is certainly a moa|kwonderful provision of nature. â€" Iron. A Specimen of Anatrallsn KeportloK. • The fol'o-ving is a cutting from a Queens- land paper : " Matthews started en foot, alone, to walk over the range to Thorn - borough, but, overcome with grief and whiskey, lay down on the banks of the Barron River to sleep. Now, thcalligators of the Barron lliver are both numerous and ferocious. They assimilated Matthews, with the exception of one leg, which was recogaized by the boot on it. This, after having been identified, was afforded Chris- tian burial in the Cairns Cemetery, tlie funeral being largely attended. There it still reposes, while the balance of Matthews is wandering about the Barron River as an alligator." The Pink of Propriety. A n.Voar old friend of ours, starting out I for a children's party the other afternoon, remarks to the maid who is taking him to the place of entertainment : " Well, I've made up my mind to be a perfect gentleman to-day ; I don't mean to kick a single girl." â€" Harper''* Ilazar. think that the total is so bad," and Jeremy going to be a big business, unless I am mis read " Laiidod i)roporty in Katal and the Trauo- vaal, ofitimated value £3 500 This House 'mo Stockâ€" wftgRouB, etc., say '......'... 800 Kaco- horsoB I have left that blank." " Put thorn at £800," said Ernest, after thinking. " You know I won tfiOO with token.' CHAPTER XXXIII. MANS PKOPHKHIES KVH,. Ernest and Jeremy did not let the grass grow under their feet. They guessed that there soon would bo a great deal of recruit- ing for various corps, and so set to work at once to se(!ure the best men. The stamp 1 T J »> , ,. ,, ^ , , "1°' â„¢''" 'liey aimed at getting was the 'Lady Mary on the Cape Town plate last Vlonialborn Knglishman? both because "'t â-  ^ •'••:)»». ) such men have more sclf-rospect, ind<)i)end- Jeromy went on: > • â-  , ' ..' . i.'" ( once of chaiactiT, and " guinptioi], " than , £l,.')no '^6 ordinary drifting scdiniont from the 180 fields and seaports, and also Iw <aiiae they â- ^^^ were practically ready-madcr soldiers. .,,.,. , ,, They could ride as well as they could Now of this we have actually saved and walk, th.v were splendid rido-ahots, and nvested about twenty. five hundre<l, the they liad, too, from childhood, boon "Racn-borBeB and winnings. HundrioBâ€" caeh, balance, oto Total served in the computations of the Chancel- lor of the British Exchequer. So the first day of the financial year is the 6th of April, " Old Lady Day." ^ A Itoinarkable Family. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Niokerson, of Shag Harbor, N. H., aged respectively 87 and 83, live with their only son, Mr. Theodore Nickerson, and across the street directly opirosite lives his only son, Mr. Charles Nickerson, who has an only son named Adolbert. This lad takes a meal daily with his grandfather and grandmother, great- grandfather and two great-grandmothers, as Mrs. Theodore Nickerson's mother is hvmg with them, aged 84. As the six sit around the table their united ages are 377, and the lad is only Vi years. Only a few yards from their door is his great-groat- iinclc, Mr. Nehcmiali Niokerson, aged 83 years, living with his only son, who has an only daughter, and only child.â€" Capir Sable Advertiter. The Dacoits in Bnrmah are quick to natch an idea and ingenious in applying it. They chop down a tree, hollow it out, cut down several miles of telegraph poles, and wind the wire round tho tree, and their cannon is finished. JnBt an Oood. . " Must l>e pretty cold out your way," he { observed to a farmer who had just como ' into market with his whiskers full of frost. " Yes, tolerable." "What did your thermometer register?" " I hain't got none." "I should think you would wontto know how cold it was." No, I don't keer much. . . ,. ..-,,. •â-  . ,. I kin alius toll A long line of Chicago horse cors was "y touching my tongue to the axe whether stopped tlio other day because some noodles blocked the way. There wore, however, a good many of themâ€" 6,183,000, wcigh-ng 2,500 pounds. The box which contained them was on a truck and for some time re- sisted the efforts of a dozen men with crow- bars to move it. Tho needles had just arrived^rom the establishment of William Clarke & Sons, in Redditch, Englond which was founded in 1670. It is said that 600,000,000 needles are annually imported to the United States, tho Chicago agents of this single house handling more than a third of them. | A man at Tulare, Cal., deeded a piece of f.roiierty to his wife in consideration of " love and affection in hand paid." A full-blooded Indian, HO years old, was ordained a deacon in an Episcopal Ch'urch 111 Minneapolis last week. Chang, tho Chinese fjiant, has returned to Shanghai after making tho circuit of the world. it's last summer or Free Fr^xii. this winter." â€" Detroit What Wo Are (!omlii|; To. Scene in hotel twenty-five years hence. Guest to porterâ€" Can you tell mo what time it is '! Porterâ€" Yes, sir. It's half-past 12. That'll coat you 50 cents, pleaseâ€" Jl/crc/mnt I'rm'cler. " I don't care I" exclaimed the yonng woman behind tho counter, when she heard of tho marriage of an old acquaintance to a ricli codger old enough to bo hor father ; " they aneer at me because I am a saleslady, but I'd rather bo a saleslady that a lady that is sold." A family in Norwich, Conn., is named Hkocsucka. Tho woman who marries a man for his pockotbook should not expect \o find his lieart inside. '^ Â¥ '.â- ^1 '> y'^'